On telepathy.

"If only one accustoms oneself to the idea of telepathy," Freud wrote in 1932, "one can accomplish a great deal with it."[1] As in numerous other instances, Freud's prediction has acquired new force in the wake of its reinterpretation by such critics as Jacques Derrida and Maria Torok.

Telepathy is, furthermore, a figure of communication -- of the communication of feeling or "felt" meaning (pathos) over distance (tele) -- it becomes easy to appreciate the term's critical potential.

Think of  passionately excited mobs, is this a kind of mass telepathy?

Literature is a discursive formation, one that solicits the thought of telepathy: "Difficult to imagine a theory of fiction, a theory of the novel, without a theory of telepathy" (pp. 13, 17). Royle is echoing a memorable sentence of Derrida's "Difficult to imagine a theory of what they still call the unconscious without a theory of telepathy"

Telepathy can be the process of elaborating and disarticulating Romantic ideologies of sympathy, imagination, and desire. This literary tradition, so frequently (and absurdly) identified as that of "realism," draws its most profound inspiration from its encounters with the uncanny: with those charged, Gothic moments when the domestic turns unheimlich. (uncanny or weird)